Fellatious
I furnish a store window as a peep show, using flashing lights around it and a 25-cent notice to invite passersby to have a brief look at one of my bodily organs, my mouth. Interested voyeurs pay a required viewing fee, a quarter, after which they receive a black telescope-like device and instructions on how to use it. The window is covered from the inside with a curtain that has an orifice through which I interact with paying participants. The voyeuristic component to the piece relies on the gaze of passersby as they witness the “private” interaction between the performer and the client.
This performance comments on a chapter of the socio-economic history of Times Square and its rapid effacement due to “development.” For this reason I metaphorically relocate the genitals to the upper part of my body, my face, suggesting a reference to the displacement that the actual development of this area of New York City has produced.
Presented with Chashama
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